Imagining Russia
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Russian Nationalism From An Interdisciplinary Perspective
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Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2000
Russian Nationalism From An Interdisciplinary Perspective written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This study examines how Russians imagine Russia in the 21st century and for the last three centuries. It looks at Russian history and modern day conflicts, such as ethnicity, to see how Russian people identify themselves. This study sheds light on many topics in Russian history, such as nationalism, anti-Semitism, Orthodox Christianity and ethnic others and reaction to NATO actions in Kosovo.
Imagining Russia
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Author : Kimberly A. Williams
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-15
Imagining Russia written by Kimberly A. Williams and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Imagining America
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Author : Alan M. Ball
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2004-09-09
Imagining America written by Alan M. Ball and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-09 with History categories.
In Imagining America, historian Alan M. Ball explores American influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Ball deftly illustrates how in each era Russians have approached the United States with a conflicting mix of ideas—as a land to admire from afar, to shun at all costs, to emulate as quickly as possible, or to surpass on the way to a superior society. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Ball traces the shifting Russian perceptions of American cultural, social, and political life. As he clearly demonstrates, throughout their history Russian imaginations featured a United States that political figures and intellectuals might embrace, exploit, or attack, but could not ignore.
Imagining Russia
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Author : Kimberly Ann Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Imagining Russia written by Kimberly Ann Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq.
Imagining Russian Regions
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Author : Susan Smith-Peter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Imagining Russian Regions written by Susan Smith-Peter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with History categories.
This volume shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861.
Imagining Nabokov
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Author : Nina L. Khrushcheva
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Imagining Nabokov written by Nina L. Khrushcheva and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
div Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. Khrushcheva, a Russian living in America, finds in Nabokov’s novels a useful guide for Russia’s integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov’s “Western” characters herself, she discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that he foresaw a half-century earlier. In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging one’s own “happy” destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, Khrushcheva contends, and Nabokov’s work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders. /DIV
Picturing Russia
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Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Picturing Russia written by Valerie Ann Kivelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art and history categories.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Seeing into being: an introduction / Valerie A Kivelson and Joan Neuberger -- 2: Dirty old books / Simon Franklin -- 3: Visualizing and illustrating early Rus housing / David M Goldfrank -- 4: Crosier of St Stefan of Perm / A V Chernetsov -- 5: Sixteenth-century Muscovite cavalrymen / Donald Ostrowski -- 6: Blessed is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar: an icon from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin / Daniel Rowland -- 7: Cap of Monomakh / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- 8: Church of the Intercession on the Moat / St Basil's Cathedral / Michael S Flier -- 9: Mapping serfdom: peasant dwellings on seventeenth-century litigation maps / Valerie A Kivelson -- 10: From tsar to emperor: portraits of Aleksei and Peter I / Lindsey Hughes -- 11: Russian Round Table: Aleksei Zubov's depiction of the marriage of his Royal Highness, Peter the First, autocrat of all the Russias / Ernest A Zitser -- 12: Icon of female authority: the St Catherine image of 1721 / Gary Marker -- 13: Conspicuous consumption at the Court of Catherine the Great: Count Zakhar Chernyshev's snuffbox / Douglas Smith -- 14: Moving pictures: the optics of serfdom on the Russian estate / Thomas Newlin -- 15: Neither nobles nor peasants: plain painting and the emergence of the merchant estate / David L Ransel -- 16: Circles on a Square: the heart of St Petersburg culture in the early nineteenth century / Richard Stites -- 17: Alexander Ivanov's appearance of Christ to the people / Laura Engelstein -- 18: Lubki of emancipation / Richard Wortman -- 19: Folk art and social ritual / Alison Hilton -- 20: Personal and imperial: Fyodor Vasiliev's in the Crimean Mountains / Christopher Ely -- 21: Shop signs, monuments, souvenirs: views of the empire in everyday life / Willard Sunderland -- 22: Storming of Kars / Stephen M Norris -- 23: A O Karelin and provincial Bourgeois photography / Catherine Evtuhov -- 24: European fashion in Russia / Christine Ruane -- 25: Savior on the Waters church war memorial in St Petersburg / Nadieszda Kizenko -- 26: Workers in suits: performing the self / Mark D Steinberg -- 27: Visualizing masculinity: the male sex that was not one in Fin-de-Siecle Russia / Louise McReynolds -- 28: Pictographs of power: the 500-ruble note of 1912 / James Cracraft -- 29: Visualizing 1917 / William G Rosenberg -- 30: Looking at Tatlin's stove / Christina Kiaer -- 31: Soviet images of Jehovah in the 1920s / Robert Weinberg -- 32: National types / Francine Hirsch -- 33: Envisioning empire: veils and visual revolution in Soviet Central Asia / Douglas Northrop -- 34: Visual economy of forced labor: Alexander Rodchenko and the White Sea-Baltic Canal / Erika Wolf -- 35: Cinematic pastoral of the 1930s / Emma Widdis -- 36: Portrait of Lenin: carpets and national culture in Soviet Turkmenistan / Adrienne Edgar -- 37: Moscow metro / Mike O'Mahony -- 38: Soviet spectacle: the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition / Evgeny Dobrenko -- 39: Motherland calling? national symbols and the mobilization for war / Karen Petrone -- 40: Visual dialectics: murderous laughter in Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger -- 41: Soviet Jewish photographers confront World War II and the Holocaust / David Shneer -- 42: Morning of Our Motherland: Fyodor Shurpin's portrait of Stalin / Mark Bassin -- 43: Pioneer Palace in the Lenin Hills / Susan E Reid -- 44: Mikhail Romm's Ordinary Fascism / Josephine Woll -- 45: Solaris and the white, white screen / Lilya Kaganovsky -- 46: After Malevich-variations on the return to the Black Square / Jane A Sharp -- 47: Imagining Soviet rock: Akvarium's Triangle / Polly McMichael -- 48: Keeping the ancient piety: Old Believers and contemporary society / Roy R Robson and Elena B Smilianskaia -- 49: Viktor Vasnetsov's bogatyrs: mythic heroes and Sacrosanct borders go to market / Helena Goscilo -- 50: Landscape and vision at the White Sea-Baltic Canal / Michael Kunichika -- Chronology of Russian history -- Selected bibliography -- List of contributors -- Illustration credits -- Index
Imagining Russian Regions
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Author : Susan Smith-Peter
language : en
Publisher: Russian History and Culture
Release Date : 2018
Imagining Russian Regions written by Susan Smith-Peter and has been published by Russian History and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861. Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel's ideas of civil society influenced Russians and the resulting plans to stimulate the growth of civil society also formed subnational identities.It challenges the view of the provinces as empty space held by Nikolai Gogol, who rejected the new non-noble provincial identity and welcomed a noble-only district identity. By 1861, these non-noble and noble publics would come together to form a multi-estate provincial civil society whose promise was not fulfilled due to the decision of the government to keep the peasant estate institutionally separate.
Imagining Russian Jewry
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Author : Steven J. Zipperstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Imagining Russian Jewry written by Steven J. Zipperstein and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Social Science categories.
This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.
Russia On The Edge
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Author : Edith W. Clowes
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Russia On The Edge written by Edith W. Clowes and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. In Russia on the Edge Edith W. Clowes argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today. Clowes lays out several sides of the debate. She takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers, among them Tatyana Tolstaya and Viktor Pelevin. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder of neo-Eurasianism, has articulated positions contested by such writers and thinkers as Mikhail Ryklin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Anna Politkovskaia, whose works call for a new civility in a genuinely pluralistic Russia. Dugin’s extreme views and their many responses—in fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalism—form the body of this book. In Russia on the Edge literary and cultural critics will find the keys to a vital post-Soviet writing culture. For intellectual historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists the book is a guide to the variety of post-Soviet efforts to envision new forms of social life, even as a reconstructed authoritarianism has taken hold. The book introduces nonspecialist readers to some of the most creative and provocative of present-day Russia’s writers and public intellectuals.